Data report
Friendship Report 2026: how well do friends really know each other?
We looked at 73,769 completed BFF test games, over a million individual guesses, to see what friends get right about each other and what they get wrong.
Key findings
- Most friends know you well, not perfectly. The average score is 6.05 out of 10, and the most common result is 5/10. Only about one in eight friends gets everything right.
- Habits are harder to guess than personality. The hardest question was when someone is most active (morning, evening, night or afternoon): friends got it right only 57.1% of the time.
- The easiest question was the most predictable one. 71% of players named WhatsApp as the app they use most, and friends guessed that question correctly 77.2% of the time.
- Friends assume you are more like them than you are. People who said success matters most to them were guessed correctly only 50% of the time; friends most often assumed friendship. Confident people were mistaken for “the funny one” 30% of the time.
- Small pet peeves go unnoticed. Only 10.3% of players said being late makes them angry, and just 38% of their friends knew it. Most guessed “lies”.
The average friend scores 6 out of 10
Each game has ten multiple-choice questions with four options each. Random guessing would average 2.5/10, so a typical friend does more than twice as well as chance, but still misses about four answers.
The bump at 10/10 is real: perfect scores (12.1%) are more common than 8/10 or 9/10. Some friendships are simply that close, and some creators share their quiz with the person they talk to every day.
The easiest and hardest things to guess about a friend
Share of guesses that matched the creator’s own answer, by question:
The two hardest questions are about private moments: what quietly annoys someone, and when they feel most alive. These are things friends rarely see directly. The easiest are things friends see all the time, like which app someone is on or the music they play.
The most misread people
Some answers are much harder to guess than others. When the creator’s true answer was one of these, friends were right less often and usually guessed the more “typical” option instead:
| If you said… | Friends got it right | Most common wrong guess |
|---|---|---|
| Being late makes me angry | 38% | Lies (24%) |
| I like sad music most | 49% | Party / DJ (26%) |
| On weekends I just sleep | 50% | Go out with friends (25%) |
| Success matters most to me | 50% | Friendship (24%) |
| My favourite food is biryani | 53% | Pizza (27%) |
| I’m the confident one | 53% | Funny (30%) |
| I like rock music most | 54% | Party / DJ (31%) |
| Being ignored makes me angry | 55% | Lies (29%) |
The pattern is consistent: friends fall back on the popular or flattering answer. If you are the quiet one who secretly loves sad songs and sleeps all weekend, your friends probably see a more social version of you.
The reverse is also true. The best-guessed answers were WhatsApp as the most-used app (86% correct), pizza as favourite food (76%) and party music (76%): popular choices that friends guess by default.
What people actually chose about themselves
Creators’ own answers across 50,777 quizzes:
| Question | Top answer | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|
| App used most | WhatsApp 71.0% | YouTube 16.6% |
| Favourite food | Pizza 42.8% | Burger 32.1% |
| Childhood dream job | Doctor 41.5% | Actor / actress 28.7% |
| Favourite music | Party / DJ 41.5% | Romantic 39.8% |
| Weekend preference | Go out with friends 40.5% | Stay at home 36.9% |
| What makes them angry | Being ignored 39.8% | Lies 34.0% |
| Kind of person | Funny 39.0% | Quiet 24.6% |
| What they enjoy more | Watching movies 34.7% | Playing games 34.0% |
| Most active | Night 31.0% | Evening 29.6% |
| What matters most | Success 29.7% | Friendship 26.6% |
“Being ignored” beat “lies” as the thing that makes people angriest, and success narrowly beat friendship, family (22.2%) and money (21.4%) as what matters most. Night owls (31.0%) outnumber morning people (27.5%).
When people play
Games are played around the clock because the quiz is played in 62 languages worldwide, but activity peaks between 17:00 and 20:00 UTC (evening in Europe and Africa, late night in South Asia, afternoon in the Americas). The quietest hour is 02:00 UTC.
Methodology
- Source: anonymous, aggregated results from games played on bestfriendgame.com. No names, emails or individual answers are published.
- Period: December 15, 2025 to September 30, 2026.
- Sample: 50,777 quizzes created, 73,769 completed friend games used for scores, and 1,047,059 individual guesses used for question accuracy.
- How it works: a creator answers ten fixed questions about themselves (four options each). Friends then guess the creator’s answers. A guess is “correct” when it matches the creator’s saved choice.
- Exclusions: about 3,000 completed games with an invalid recorded score (above 10) were left out of the score statistics.
- Limits: players choose to take part and to share their quiz, so this is not a representative survey. Each question offers only four answers, and the game is played in 62 languages by a global audience. Treat the results as a fun, large-scale snapshot, not a scientific study.
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Source: Best Friend Game, Friendship Report 2026 — https://bestfriendgame.com/blog/friendship-report-2026.htmlTest how well your friends know you
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